Reason for doing GAPS

The main reason we are doing the GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride) meal plan is that my five your old son and I have very bad gut issues.  My son was diagnosed with CSID which is Congenital Sucrase Isomaltase Deficiency which means his body does not process sugars.  Also he has very bad gut flora from the many antibiotics he was on for the first 3 years of his life.  He was born 2 months early and was very sick until he was 4.  Now we are trying to heal his gut which will help with his behavior, appetite, growth, weight gain, mood and his sensory issues.  Your gut is like your second brain so if it is not well balanced, neither is the rest of you.  I have had major issues with my gut since I was a little girl.  I never ate like my son because it just hurt to much.  It was easier for me to just not eat.  Well that led the diagnosis of having Anorexia because I refused to eat and not a lot of people understood that the reason I didn't eat was because it was to painful, not because I thought I was fat.  So I am now hoping this meal plan will heal us all and we can start to live a healthy normal life, pain free!!